Sylhet Bureau :
Most of the listed Yaba smugglers have remained out of reach, but drug peddlers and drug addicts are being arrested or fallen victim to gunfights during the ongoing crackdown against drugs across the country including Sylhet area, detective sources said.
Police said most of the listed drug dealers and peddlers have gone into hiding.
‘We’re hardly trying to arrest drug traders. No one will be spared. We raided houses of almost all the listed drug dealers and peddlers who went into hiding,’ a police source said.
Civil society members have expressed surprise at the failure of law enforcers to round up listed drug traders.
Police said they are desperate to nab the listed drug dealers, but they (dealers) skillfully evade arrest.
Additional Superintendent of Police in Sylhet Akhtaruzzam Bushuniya said, ‘Police are conducting anti-drug drives every day. Top Yaba traders will be brought to justice.’ The Sylhet Metropolitan Police short-listed top drug traders in the Sylhet and their patrons.
The SMP officer also said their regular drive is on and they are arresting users, sellers and buyers. But they now want to launch a crackdown on top traders.
‘We are getting many names, as well as list, but we actually want to verify their involvement before taking action,’ he said.
SMP Commissioner Gulam Kibria said they have been conducting drives targeting listed drug spots in the Sylhet and picking up those with narcotics.
‘Drug peddlers have no place in Sylhet city,’ he said, adding that by turn, all the branded drug stops in the Sylhet will be demolished.
‘We have drawn up a list of drug dealers on intelligence agencies’ information. They will be brought to book,’ he said, adding that drug dealers will have to pay for their misdeeds.
Journos urged to enhance awareness about village court
Speakers at a programme in Sylhet on Wednesday urged the media personnel to publish positive and success stories of the village court project in their respective newspapers and electronic media to grow popularity of the project and its activities among the countrymen.
They said that the journalists could play a crucial role in creating awareness among the general people about village court through introducing its objectives and achievements in settling disputes at nominal cost in a short period of time.
They came up with the comments while addressing a view exchanging meeting with media personnel on ‘Role of mass media in stimulating mass awareness about village court’ held at the conference room of the deputy commissioner office in the morning.
The local government section of the district administration in association with European Union, United Nations Development Programme and Bangladesh government arranged the meeting under ‘Activating Village Court in Bangladesh (2nd phase) Project’.
Deputy commissioner Numery Zaman attended the programme as chief guest and the local government deputy director Devajit Singha chaired it.
AVCBP Sylhet district facilitator Khandaker Rabiul Awal Nasim presented a power point presentation on the topic and detail activities of the village court project.
He said the village court is being operated at 50 unions at Balaganj, Bishwanath, Golapganj, Bianibazar, Goainghat and Companiganj upazilas.
‘A total of 902 complaints and cases were filed in 9 months between July 2017 and March 2018 with the village courts in the district. Of the lodged cases, 180 were rejected and 490 were settled by the courts and the rate of settled cases is 54 per cent,’ Nasim mentioned in his presentation, adding that 220 cases were pending with the courts till the day.
The AVCBP outreach specialist Aparna Ghosh, village court district management committee member Al Azad, Sylhet Press Club president Aziz Ahmad Selim, Electronic Journalist Association district unit president Devashish Debu, senior journalist Sangram Singha, Kamkamur Rajjak Runu, Mahbubur Rahman and Muhibur Rahman, among others, addressed the programme that was attended by the representatives of different regional and national daily newspapers and television channels.
Most of the listed Yaba smugglers have remained out of reach, but drug peddlers and drug addicts are being arrested or fallen victim to gunfights during the ongoing crackdown against drugs across the country including Sylhet area, detective sources said.
Police said most of the listed drug dealers and peddlers have gone into hiding.
‘We’re hardly trying to arrest drug traders. No one will be spared. We raided houses of almost all the listed drug dealers and peddlers who went into hiding,’ a police source said.
Civil society members have expressed surprise at the failure of law enforcers to round up listed drug traders.
Police said they are desperate to nab the listed drug dealers, but they (dealers) skillfully evade arrest.
Additional Superintendent of Police in Sylhet Akhtaruzzam Bushuniya said, ‘Police are conducting anti-drug drives every day. Top Yaba traders will be brought to justice.’ The Sylhet Metropolitan Police short-listed top drug traders in the Sylhet and their patrons.
The SMP officer also said their regular drive is on and they are arresting users, sellers and buyers. But they now want to launch a crackdown on top traders.
‘We are getting many names, as well as list, but we actually want to verify their involvement before taking action,’ he said.
SMP Commissioner Gulam Kibria said they have been conducting drives targeting listed drug spots in the Sylhet and picking up those with narcotics.
‘Drug peddlers have no place in Sylhet city,’ he said, adding that by turn, all the branded drug stops in the Sylhet will be demolished.
‘We have drawn up a list of drug dealers on intelligence agencies’ information. They will be brought to book,’ he said, adding that drug dealers will have to pay for their misdeeds.
Journos urged to enhance awareness about village court
Speakers at a programme in Sylhet on Wednesday urged the media personnel to publish positive and success stories of the village court project in their respective newspapers and electronic media to grow popularity of the project and its activities among the countrymen.
They said that the journalists could play a crucial role in creating awareness among the general people about village court through introducing its objectives and achievements in settling disputes at nominal cost in a short period of time.
They came up with the comments while addressing a view exchanging meeting with media personnel on ‘Role of mass media in stimulating mass awareness about village court’ held at the conference room of the deputy commissioner office in the morning.
The local government section of the district administration in association with European Union, United Nations Development Programme and Bangladesh government arranged the meeting under ‘Activating Village Court in Bangladesh (2nd phase) Project’.
Deputy commissioner Numery Zaman attended the programme as chief guest and the local government deputy director Devajit Singha chaired it.
AVCBP Sylhet district facilitator Khandaker Rabiul Awal Nasim presented a power point presentation on the topic and detail activities of the village court project.
He said the village court is being operated at 50 unions at Balaganj, Bishwanath, Golapganj, Bianibazar, Goainghat and Companiganj upazilas.
‘A total of 902 complaints and cases were filed in 9 months between July 2017 and March 2018 with the village courts in the district. Of the lodged cases, 180 were rejected and 490 were settled by the courts and the rate of settled cases is 54 per cent,’ Nasim mentioned in his presentation, adding that 220 cases were pending with the courts till the day.
The AVCBP outreach specialist Aparna Ghosh, village court district management committee member Al Azad, Sylhet Press Club president Aziz Ahmad Selim, Electronic Journalist Association district unit president Devashish Debu, senior journalist Sangram Singha, Kamkamur Rajjak Runu, Mahbubur Rahman and Muhibur Rahman, among others, addressed the programme that was attended by the representatives of different regional and national daily newspapers and television channels.
